We’ve identified Chucky would return since late final yr—welcome however not fully stunning information, contemplating that the collection (creator Don Mancini’s continuation of the campy, creepy Child’s Play motion pictures) was an enormous hit in its first season. We obtained a very brief teaser earlier in July saying the October 5 premiere date, and because of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, we now have a trailer for season two.

Behold, Chucky is again… and it’s asking a query followers have been dying to know the reply to: “Whatever happened to Chucky?”

Jennifer Tilly in a turban! Earnest teenage smooching! A “THEY THEM” license plate on a classic pink automobile! Chucky asking a nun “Wanna pray?”

When io9 spoke to Mancini final yr after the season two renewal information broke, he couldn’t say a lot about what to anticipate—he’d really simply began writing season two—however he teased that “a lot of the [Child’s Play movie] characters that fans love and would like to see again, you just might see them.” (We now know, in fact, that Lachlan Watson will be playing two of these beloved characters.) He additionally couldn’t inform us whether or not or not the story would proceed the plot of Chucky season one, although that appeared extremely seemingly given the truth that it ended on a little bit of a cliffhanger.

With that trailer, we all know season one’s survivors shall be again, one thing additional confirmed by season two’s official description: “After his diabolical plan to invade America’s children’s hospitals was foiled in season one, Chucky now seeks revenge on those he holds responsible: surviving teens Jake (Zackary Arthur), Devon (Björgvin Arnarson) and Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind), along with his ex Tiffany, now his sworn enemy.”

Chucky and Tiffany, in fact, are voiced by the delightfully terrifying Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly; Mancini additionally confirmed back in May that Fiona Dourif, who performs Nica (who will get possessed by Chucky when he desires to slide out of doll mode and take a human type), could be again for season two—as will Devon Sawa, who has already died twice on the present, and whose (in all probability doomed) new character makes an look in that trailer.

In the phrases of you-know-who, “When do we get to start stabbin’ people?” Chucky season two premieres October 5 on USA and Syfy.

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